Why is National Manufacturing Month important to recognize?

October is National Manufacturing Month and it was established in 2012. That is only eight years ago for an industry that has been part of America’s economy for hundreds of years. History reports that in 1790 Samuel Slater opened the first factory for textile manufacturing in the United States. And now in 2020, we have […]

How a Capability Study Verifies your Metal Part is Ready for Production

For Ultra’s capability studies, we inspect a series of parts for specific dimensions and then do a statistical analysis on the readings to determine if the manufacturing process is stable enough to hold the dimensions within spec consistently.  The standard practice is to perform capability studies on 30 pieces, but there are variations if this […]